1. "Yay, a Black person gets to lead a pseudo lame-duck Congress" In response to In response to 0 Wed Nov-30-22 02:26 PM by Cam
Jeffries (whom I voted for, while living in his district) of the less than 10 legislative bills he's sponsored, none were related to Blackness. For the nearly 100 bills he's co-sponsored that have become law during, what will be, his decade's long career in Congress, his record's not remarkable related to Blackness.
Bills that were unique to Blackness (among the dozens of others unique to specific ethnic/orientation/heritage/historic groups that he's also helped pass) almost all had to do with Gold Star recognitions, the renaming of post offices and efforts towards commemorative coins. Aside from an Act for the National Parks Service to institute a network for educational guides related to civil rights era, there's the passage of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. I won't argue about it being largely another symbolic gesture, but it was done weeks after co-sponsoring a passed bill to financially support Public Safety Officers specifically.
My point is this is like celebrating Lovie Smith getting the job to coach the Texans after they fired David Culley. They're planning to use him as a toll to be the Heavy--versus AOC n'em--for more Congressional inaction and to promote centrist polices no-one really wants.